8:45 – 9:00
Opening Remarks
Morning Theme: Geometry, Topology, and Symmetry / Session Chair: Zeb Rocklin
9:00 – 9:45
Martin Wegener Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; Director and Research Institute Chair – Nanophotonics
Different routes towards roton-like dispersion relations in mechanical metamaterials
9:45 – 10:30
Chris Santangelo Syracuse University, New York; Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Physics
Designing materials with tunable properties
10:30 – 11:00
***COFFEE/SNACK BREAK***
11:00 – 11:45
Robert Kohn The Courant Institute, New York University; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
The Mechanisms and Macroscopic Behavior of the Kagome Metamaterial
Three Short Talks – 15 Minutes talk and questions:
11:45 – 12:00
Nan Cheng University of Michigan, Physics Graduate Student
Bloch’s Theorem on Hyperbolic Lattice
12:00 – 12:15
James McInerney University of Michigan, Physics Postdoc
Topological polarization of codimensional Maxwell lattices
12:15 – 12:30
Sourav Roy Syracuse University, Physics Graduate Student
A generalized continuum elasticity theory for mechanical metamaterials
12:30 – 2:00
***LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION***
Afternoon Theme: Learning, Intelligence, and Emergence I / Session Chair: Stefano Gonella
2:00 – 2:45
Kon-Well Wang University of Michigan
Stephen P. Timoshenko Collegiate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Reconfigurable Mechanical Metastructures – From Wave Controls to Mechano-Intelligence
2:45 – 3:30
Pai Wang The University of Utah
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
How to achieve any band structure you want – Extreme Customization of Dispersion Relations
3:30 – 4:00
***COFFEE BREAK***
4:00 – 4:45
Massimo Ruzzene University of Colorado Boulder; Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Dean of the Institutes; Slade Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Elastic Hyperbolic Lattices
4:45 – 5:30
Special Topic Discussion 1: “At the intersection between mathematics and metamaterials“
Facilitators:
Xiaoming Mao, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
Zeb Rocklin, Assistant Professor of Physics, Georgia Tech